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11 gauge (1/8") weld-on end caps sourced from an ebay vendor. 5/8" all thread welded to the cap. I intentionally oversized the O.D. by one inch for an overhang.
5/8" nut welded to a piece of 3/16" thick flat bar...
...and trimmed to fit snugly inside the top smoke stack.
It's snug enough to stay in place while I plumb everything as good as possible.
Once I'm reasonably happy with fit-up, I fully weld it.
So, there's my take on an adjustable stack. I'm hoping it works well. I will have to wait and see.
I'm going to try something similar on the smoke damper on the back of the wood stove with a steel hub cap from a '54 Oldsmobile. Will it work? I have no idea, but it's worth a shot.
I found some awesome stainless steel NOS U.S. Navy surplus thermometers on ebay. This one will be used on the smoker.
I bought this one to put on the firebox, but I'm not sure it's needed. I just want to see how quickly I can change the temp using the dampers instead of just guessing. I don't know if 750 F is even a high enough range or not. I also found this on ebay thinking it was US made, but it's made in China. Had I known that, I would have kept shopping.
I'm hoping to run some wood through it next week and do some testing. Getting there slowly but surely.
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Andreevskaia, Alina (2003) Knowledge acquisition for dynamic personalization in e-commerce. Masters thesis, Concordia University.
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Information technology is playing an increasingly important role in today's world. Commerce through Internet is not an exception to this phenomenon. Currently the focus in the retailer e-commerce is shifting toward catering to the needs of repeat customers by offering them more personalized services. One of the barriers to such an individualized approach to each customer is the difficulty of collecting information about individual users. This thesis addresses this knowledge acquisition problem. Based on a thorough analysis of different kinds of knowledge acquisition tools and techniques, we propose an architecture that allows the use of a combination of different approaches for knowledge acquisition about users in e-commerce. This architecture is designed to support dynamic adaptation of the user profile to changes in the user interests as well as in the store. The architecture is based on two core concepts, namely dynamic personalization and software agent-support. To reduce the time and effort put in the process of knowledge acquisition by the user and by the knowledge engineer software agents in the proposed architecture assist in different aspects of the process, such as profile initialization, processing of results discovered by the web mining, making changes to user profile and tracking their effects, and in trust related issues and interaction with other agents and systems. A proof of concept prototype has been implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of the architecture
Divisions: | Concordia University > Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science > Computer Science and Software Engineering |
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
Authors: | Andreevskaia, Alina |
Pagination: | viii, 122 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. |
Institution: | Concordia University |
Degree Name: | Theses (M.Comp.Sc.) |
Program: | Computer Science and Software Engineering |
Date: | 2003 |
Thesis Supervisor(s): | Radhakrishnan, Thiruvengadam |
ID Code: | 2330 |
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whilst shortening the windlass cable run (by 7 metres ) I overtightened the battery post , which has a small /4 mm ? , bolt holding it to the battery body and it snapped , inside the battery lug . ah , problem ! how can the broken remainder of the bolt be extracted ? it seems a bit lightweight fitting a battery post to a big heavy battery using a little 4 mm bolt ? I would be grateful for any ideas ,please , grafozz .
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battery post came off !
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Battery Post bolt
I am having a bit of trouble imagining what it all looks like. Batteries I am familiar with have either a round post with a clamp or a flat lead post with a bolt and nut through a hole. If it is a flat lead post with a 4mm brass bolt embeded and this has snapped off I would be fashioning a clamp of some sort ie 2 brass plates bolted together but with a gap between that the post can slip into. Clamp the 2 bolts together to get a good connection and a lug under one bolt.
I imagine any stud into the lead has been cast into the molten lead. Lead would be pretty hopeless to tap into with any sort of reliable thread. Lead too soft) So good luck post a picture if you want more ideas. olewill
04-12-09, 23:03 #3
Make a mould for a replacement battery post and fix it in position. Get the carbon rod from a dry cell - a big D cell is ideal. Attach this via a length of thick wire and big crocodile clips to the other terminal. Get a length of rod solder. Wear gloves and dark glasses. Use the carbon rod to strike an arc on the post to be repaired. Melt the solder rod with the arc and fill the mould with melted solder. Carry on and use your new battery post. Job done!
04-12-09, 23:13 #4
Like Thistle says make a mould of the terminal, instead of using solder which is lead and tin just use lead on it's own. It is the same as the terminal and can be melted over a gas stove melts about 230*C Plumbers merchant or scrap metel merchant may have lead.
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I'd think twice before striking an arc over a battery - especially in a closed space like a boat. Might be your last act.
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thanks all , I probably have not explained this too well .... the post was bolted on to a lead base which is cast into the battery case , so I still have the post in perfect shape.with a bolt sheared off inside it ,and the rest of the bolt sheared off in the battery case / lead . so I still have the lead base to fix on to . the replies give me the idea that it may be possible to melt the lead post back on ,but how to do that safely ?
I dont fancy welding gear near the battery, as suggested ,too risky methinks ! I have an old battery to use for spare lead posts .grafozz
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Take the battery to a auto electrical repair shop who May have the mould but I think that this battery may well be scrap, Do not attempt any repairs yourself unless its by a solderless method.
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melting terminals....
It's already been said, but i sense a wee bit of concern. Get a big spoon or soup ladle, put the broken terminal in it, heat over cooker/burner. Use a jubilee clip as a mold placed over the battery terminal base, pour in melted terminal, leave a few moments and remove the jubilee clip. Sorted........ I have done it many, many times with trucks, it's no problem. Perhaps I would add, remove the sheared bolt from the terminal before or during melting, and perhaps if available off an old battery, cut a bit off extra lead to for good measure and to replace volume taken by the bolt, ignore the bit in the battery terminal base.
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The 2012 UK Stata Users Group meeting will be held at Cass Business School in London on September 13–14, 2012. The meeting is a two-day international conference where the use of Stata is discussed across a wide-ranging breadth of fields and environments. The conference will comprise a series of selected presentations and feature presentations from StataCorp representatives.
Established in 1995, the UK meeting is the longest-running series of Stata Users Group meetings. It is open to all who are interested; in past years, participants have traveled from around the world to attend the event. Representatives from StataCorp will be in attendance.
Thursday, September 13
9:25–9:30 |
Opening remarks by organizers
9:30–10:00 |
Roger B. Newson
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
10:00–10:30 |
Vincenzo Verardi
University of Namur, Belgium
10:30–11:00 | Break |
11:00–11:30 |
Michael J. Crowther
Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester
Paul C. Lambert
Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, University of Leicester
11:30–12:00 |
Giovanni Cerulli
Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth, National Research Council of Italy
12:00–12:45 |
Nicholas J. Cox
Durham University, UK
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Robert Grant
St George's, University of London, and Kingston University
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StataCorp LP
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Sabrina Dorn
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Joanna Tyrowicz
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Juan Villa Lora
Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester
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Stephen Kaptoge
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Adrian Mander
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Richard Hooper
Queen Mary, University of London
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Michael J. Crowther
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Patrick Royston
MRC Clinical Trials Unit and University College London
Willi Sauerbrei
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Frank Huettner
Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität Leipzig
Marco Sunder
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Marie Hadamovsky
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Christopher F. Baum
Boston College
Arthur Lewbel
Boston College
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Heriot–Watt University, Edinburgh
Oleksandr Talavera
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Deloitte LLP, London
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Mountaineer Thalos is a level 15 quest giver located at the Coldridge Valley entrance to Coldridge Pass in the Dwarven starting zone of Dun Morogh.
Thalos is tasked with warning off travellers who wish to cross through Coldridge Pass due to the Trogg infestation. He directs those on business important enough to hazard these dangers to the next Dwarven town on the road, Kharanos.
He starts the quest [5] Senir's Observations (2), in which those in possesion of Grelin's Report are directed towards Kharanos and ultimately Senir Whitebeard.


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List of Cold War pilot defections
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Cold War, a number of pilots from various nations (Eastern Bloc, Western Bloc, and non-aligned) defected with their aircraft to other countries.
- 1 Afghanistan
- 2 Algeria
- 3 China
- 4 Cuba
- 5 Czechoslovakia
- 6 Dominican Republic
- 7 Egypt
- 8 Ethiopia
- 9 Germany
- 10 Greece
- 11 Iran
- 12 Iraq
- 13 Israel
- 14 Jordan
- 15 Laos
- 16 Lebanon
- 17 Libya
- 18 Mozambique
- 19 Netherlands
- 20 Nicaragua
- 21 North Korea
- 22 Pakistan
- 23 Poland
- 24 Portugal
- 25 Rhodesia
- 26 Saudi Arabia
- 27 Somalia
- 28 South Korea
- 29 Soviet Union
- 30 Syria
- 31 Taiwan
- 32 United States
- 33 Venezuela
- 34 Vietnam
- 35 Yugoslavia
- 36 Zimbabwe
- 37 See also
- 38 References
- On November 24, 1960, A Royal Afghan Air Force pilot Abdus Samad Fazli defected by flying his Piper Cub across the border to Pakistan.[1]
- On February 26, 1981, Afghan Air Force pilot Captain Jamal ud Din defected with his crew to Pakistan on board a Mil Mi-8T helicopter numbered 285, during post-maintenance flight test from Kandahar Air Base.[1]
- On November 20, 1983, Captain Mohammed Nabi Korinzay defected to Pakistan with his Sukhoi Su-7BM fighter-bomber. The aircraft broke up during a crash landing on the runway at Dalbandin.[1]
- On September 22, 1984, Colonel Haji Fakir, flying an An-26 defected from Afghanistan to Miranshah Air Base, Pakistan.[1]
- On June 28, 1985, The crews of two Mi-24 Hind-Ds defected from Afghanistan to Pakistan. The helicopters were later transferred to the United States for evaluation.[1]
- On December 8, 1988, Captain Asadullah flying a MiG-21 defected from Afghanistan to Miranshah Air Base, Pakistan.[1]
- On July 3, 1989, Captain Mohammed Hamid flying a Mi-25 defected from Afghanistan to Kica Air Base, Pakistan.[1]
- On July 6, 1989, Afghan Air Force Captain Jan Pahrand defected to Pakistan with his Sukhoi Su-22M-4K fighter-bomber.[1]
- After the defection of the Assyrian Iraqi Captain Munir Redfa, 3 MiG-21F-13 and at least 6 MiG-17F Algerian pilots were captured by Israel after landing their aircraft at Israeli el-Arish Air Base by mistake, one of the captured Algerian pilots requested and was granted political asylum in the west, while the rest were repatriated.[citation needed]
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A number of defections occurred from the People's Republic of China, with most of its pilots defecting to the Republic of China (Taiwan). These include:
- On January 12, 1960, the first PLA defection occurred. Yang Decai (T:楊德才, S:杨德才), a PLANAF pilot from the 4th Fighter Division (or 4th Div PLANAF?) flew an Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 with serial number 6501 from Luqiao (T:路橋, S:路桥) air base to Yilan County, Taiwan. However, Yang was killed when his aircraft crashed on landing.
- On September 15, 1961, PLAAF pilots Shao Xiyan (邵希彦) and Gao Youzong (高佑宗) flew an Antonov An-2 from Ji'ao county (T:膠縣, S:胶县), Shandong to Jeju-do and reached Taiwan on October 7, 1961. Both pilots were personally interviewed by Chiang Kai-shek and rewarded 500 taels (approximately 25 kg) of gold. Both pilots served in the Republic of China Air Force and retired with ranks of colonel, and Shao eventually emigrated to the United States.
- On March 3, 1962, Liu Chengsi (T:劉承司, S:刘承司), a PLANAF pilot of the 8th squadron of the 3rd wing of the 16th regiment flew a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 from Luqiao (T:路橋, S:路桥) air base in Zhejiang to Taoyuan County, Taiwan (now Taoyuan City). Liu was rewarded 1,000 taels (approximately 50 kg) of gold, and the position of deputy director of a Republic of China Air Force radio station. He was honorably discharged with a rank of colonel.
- On November 11, 1965, Li Xianbin (T:李顯斌, S:李显斌), a PLAAF captain of Ilyushin Il-28 of the 8th division flew his bomber numbered 0195 from Jianqiao (T:筧橋, S:笕桥) air base in Hangzhou to Taoyuan County, Taiwan (now Taoyuan City), and this was the first fully operational Il-28 in western hands. The radio operator / tail gunner Lian Baosheng (廉保生) was found dead at the scene and the navigator Li Caiwang (李才旺) was captured alive after a failed suicide attempt. Both survivors were honored and rewarded positions in the Republic of China Air Force. Li Xianbin was rewarded 2,000 taels (approximately 100 kg) of gold, while Li Caiwang was rewarded 1,000 taels (approximately 50 kg) of gold. Since Lian Baosheng was dead, his reward of 1,000 taels (approximately 50 kg) of gold was divided evenly among Li Xianbin and Li Caiwang.
- Li Xianbin made headlines in Taiwan years later when he demanded all of the rewards because of what he claimed was his unfair treatment by Taiwan. Li Xianbin claimed that he was the sole defector, and the other two were actually captured due to his defection, a fact that was later agreed by both Taiwan and he navigator Li Caiwang himself. Li Xianbin claimed that for the purpose of political propaganda, all the crew were honored as defectors, which was far from the truth, but he was not successful in getting all of the gold reward. After he was honorably discharged as colonel from the Republic of China Air Force, Li Xianbin obtained Canadian residency. He made headlines again in 1992 when he returned to China via Canada after he learned that his mother was about to die. After his return to Qingdao in October 1992, he was eventually arrested by the local Public Security Bureau when he was on his way to the airport for his return trip to Canada. Li Xianbin was first sentenced to 15 years but this was later reduced to 10, and the sentence was further reduced drastically because it was discovered that he had stomach cancer that was in its terminal stage. He was released early and died shortly after his release. Many elements of the Chinese democracy movement first accused the Chinese government of inhumanity for not allowing Li Xianbin to go back to China to visit his dying mother, and then accused the Chinese government of trying to repatriate him to either Taiwan or Canada because the regime did not want to foot the bill for his treatment, since he did not have his assets transferred to China. The Chinese government countered that, knowing he would die soon, Li Xianbin did not want to leave China because he wanted to be buried with his mother.
- Li Caiwang, the navigator of the Il-28, was seriously wounded by Li Xianbin during the latter's defection and was forced to accept his fate after his suicide attempt failed. During his stay in the hospital for the gunshot he received in the shoulder, the nurse who took care of him fell in love with him and told him that she was also responsible to perform surveillance on him, under the order of the Republic of China government. The two eventually married and moved into the nurse's home, but were still under constant surveillance: a major general of the Republic of China military had a son who was going to a school near the couple's home, so he rented a room at their residence for years to keep Li Caiwang under surveillance. Although the major general and his son finally moved out, Li Caiwang had no intention of staying in Taiwan, and since the wife's sister was married to an American, Li Caiwang and his wife immigrated to the United States in 1972 after his honorable discharge from the Republic of China Air Force as a colonel. The couple became naturalized citizens of the United States in 1979. In 1982, Chinese diplomats contacted Li Caiwang in the United States and got his side of the story, and after a prolonged investigation, the Chinese government rehabilitated him in 1984. After several visits to China in the 1990s, Li Caiwang eventually resettled in China in 1998.
- On July 7, 1977, Fan Yuanye (T:範園焱, S:范园焱), a PLAAF pilot flew his Shenyang J-6 numbered 3171 from Jinjiang to an air base in Tainan, and was rewarded a rank of lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force. After his honorable discharge from the Republic of China Air Force, Fan joined an investment firm with his money and obtained American green card, but he stayed primarily in Taiwan to handle his investments.
- On April 15, 1979, Yan Wenchang (T:閻穩昌, S:阎稳昌), a distinguished PLAAF pilot who earned numerous awards for his excellent performance in support of the Sino-Vietnamese War, was extremely bitter after learning that the promotion for the deputy squadron commissar was given to somebody else instead of him. Yan felt he was the better candidate and should get the promotion and he was under appreciated, and as a result, he decided to defect to Vietnam after learning that the opportunity would be gone because his unit would soon be redeployed to Hunan, and the only thing he left was a note to his wife that read:I'll be gone, good-bye forever!'. However, Vietnam did not react at all to his attempts for contacts after his Shenyang J-6 entered Vietnam from Guangxi, and as result, Yan was killed after directly crashing into a 1,000 metre high mountains cliff approximately 80 km south of Haiphong. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Vietnam the next day that the incident was a navigational error and asked for the return of the remains of the pilot and the jet, but Vietnam refused, and instead, asked Soviet investigators to inspect the wreckage. KGB aviation experts discovered that the avionics of Yan's J-6 was extremely rudimentary even by Soviet standard, and was indeed lacking any effective navigational avionics. Furthermore, the communication on the J-6 was not encrypted, and it could be intercepted by the top-notch civilian radios on the market. Since Yan was a regular pilot that patrolled the airspace within the 10 km of the Sino-Vietnamese border (sometimes as frequent as 4 times a day), his defection was not detected until his crash.
- On August 7, 1983, Sun Tianqin (T:孫天勤, S:孙天勤), a former PLANAF pilot who had just transferred to PLAAF several months ago to become a test pilot, flew a J-7II numbered 045 from Dalian to Seoul Air Base in South Korea. Sun was rewarded a rank of colonel in the Republic of China Air Force and 7,000 taels (approximately 350 kg) of gold, the highest ever recorded. In January 1985, Sun married Ms. Li Tianhui (李天慧), a Chinese musician who also defected to Taiwan, and the pair eventually immigrated to Canada after Sun's honorable discharge from the Republic of China Air Force.
- On November 14, 1983, Wang Xuecheng (王学成), a 25-year-old PLANAF squadron commander of the 2nd wing of the 18th regiment of the 6th division flew a Shenyang J-5 numbered 83065 from Daishan (岱山), Zhejiang to Taiwan, and under the escort of two F-5E's, successfully landed at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. Wang was rewarded a rank of major in Republic of China Air Force and 3,000 taels (approximately 150 kg) of gold. After a divorce, Wang married a local Taiwanese woman and father 2 daughters and a son, and Wang still talks to his family members in Henan via telephone, and refuses to immigrate abroad like most other Chinese defectors did.
- On August 25, 1985, a PLAAF deputy wing commander Xiao Tianrun (T:蕭天潤, S:萧天润), flew an Ilyushin Il-28 from Ji'ao county (T:膠縣, S:胶县), Shandong to Iri (now Iksan), and during emergency landing in the field, the navigator Sun Wuchun (T:孫武春, S:孙武春) was killed, along with a South Korean citizen on the ground. The radio operator / tail gunner Liu Shuyi (T:劉書義, S:刘书义) refused to defect and South Korea returned him to China along with the ashes of Sun Wuchun. On September 20, 1985, Xiao reached Taiwan and was awarded 3,000 taels (approximately 150 kg) of gold and a rank of colonel in the Republic of China Air Force. Xiao Tianrun (T:蕭天潤, S:萧天润) left two copies of his declaration against communism in China and requested one of the copies to be sent to Deng Xiaoping. Xiao was personally interviewed by Chiang Ching-kuo and appeared on the Republic of China national day celebration parade in October of the same year. Xiao later married Taiwanese TV reporter Chang Te-fung (T:張德芬, S:张德芬), who helped Xiao greatly in his investment in Taiwanese stock market, but the pair was eventually divorced.
- On February 21, 1986, Chen Baozhong (T:陳寶忠, S:陈宝忠), 26, a squadron commander of the 3rd wing of the PLAAF 4th aerial reconnaissance regiment flew a reconnaissance version of Shenyang J-6 numbered 3283 from Shenyang airport to Suwon Air Base, South Korea, abandoning a training exercise.[2] Chen reached Taiwan on April 30, 1986 and was awarded 5,000 taels (approximately 250 kg) of gold. Little is known about Chen after his honorable discharge from the Republic of China Air Force.
- On October 24, 1986, PLAAF pilot Zheng Caitian (T:鄭菜田, S:郑菜田) fly his Shenyang J-6 from Yantai to Seoul Air Base and when he reached Taiwan, he was awarded 5,000 taels (approximately 250 kg) of gold. Among the Chinese defecting pilots, Zheng has the harshest life of all, because he invested in an electronic factory that went bankrupt, and lost all of his money in his subsequent investments.
- On November 19, 1987, Liu Zhiyuan (T:劉志遠, S:刘志远), a squadron commander of PLAAF 49th division flew his Shenyang J-6 numbered 40208 from Longxi (T:龍溪, S:龙溪) airport, Zhangzhou to Ching Chuan Kang Air Base(清泉崗空軍基地) in Taichung, Taiwan and was awarded 5,000 taels (approximately 250 kg) of gold. Liu invested heavily in the Taiwanese stock market and his assets (not including the gold rewarded to him) was once more than 10 million New Taiwan dollars (approximately 400,000 United States dollars).
- On September 6, 1989, Jiang Wenhao (T:蔣文浩, S:蒋文浩), a 23-year-old PLAAF lieutenant of the 2nd wing of the 145th regiment of the 49th division flew a Shenyang J-6 numbered 40307 from Longxi (龙溪) airport, Zhangzhou, Fujian to Kinmen Shang Yi Airport (金門尚義機場). Jiang was interviewed by the then chief-of-general-staff of Taiwanese armed forces, Hau Pei-tsun and awarded a rank of lieutenant in the Republic of China Air Force. Jiang's financial reward, however, was reduced to 2,000 taels (approximately 100 kg) of gold from the original 5,000 taels (approximately 250 kg), because due to the reduction of tensions with China during the 1980s, Taiwan had greatly reduced the amount on September 15, 1988 in response to similar Chinese action four days earlier. (China had completely abolished any financial rewards to any Taiwanese defectors). Jiang was soon honorably discharged from the Republic of China Air Force after being promoted to captain. Jiang became a famed underwater photographer and won several awards, and he also worked as a diving instructor.
- On August 25, 1990, Wang Baoyu (S:王宝玉, T:王寶玉), a squadron commander of the 62 Air Regiment of the 21st PLAAF Air Division, defected to former USSR by flying his Shenyang J-6 to Vladivostok after taking off from Jiaohe (蛟河) military airport in Mudanjiang (not to be confused by the city of Jiaohe and the civilian Mudanjiang Airport at Mudangjiang). A week later, he was turned over to China along with the aircraft, and Wang Baoyu was subsequently sentenced to death, though his sentence was commuted to life in prison. The Chinese democracy movement condemned the Soviet act of turning over the pilot back to China. Several high-ranking Soviet Air Defense commanders lost their jobs as a result of this defection, because Wang Baoyu was not detected after he had landed.
Note: Rewards paid in taels have been converted to mass at a rate of 50 grams (1.6 ozt) per "new market tael".
- On 4 September 1962, a Cuban pilot-instructor Jose Diaz Vasquez defected with a Zlin 326 Master-Trainer and landed at Key West, USA. His trainee, Edel Ramirez Santos asked to return home.[3]
- On March 20, 1964, A Mil Mi-4 was hijacked by crew members Guillermo Santos and Andres Izaguirre who shot dead the commander of the helicopter, Jose Garcia, and changed the course of the flight in the direction of Naval Air Station Key West, where they ultimately landed.[3]
- On 5 October 1969, a Cuban pilot, Lieut. Eduardo Guerra Jimenez defected with his MiG-17 to Homestead Air Force Base of Miami. The plane was returned to the Cubans. Separately on June 12, 1979, ten years later, the pilot hijacked Delta Air Lines Flight 1061 back to Havana.[4]
- On May 28, 1987, Cuban Brigadier General Rafael Del Pino Díaz defected to the United States in a Cessna 402 airplane of Aerocaribbean, with his third wife, his daughter, and his son Ramsés, an ex-MiG-23 pilot. Del Pino Díaz remains the highest-ranking Cuban defector.[4]
- On March 20, 1991, Cuban Major Orestes Lorenzo Pérez defected in his MiG-23BN to Naval Air Station Key West, Florida on a training mission of the Cuban Air Force.[5] The plane was returned to the Cuban Air Force. On December 19, 1992 he returned to Cuba in a small, twin-engined 1961 Cessna 310, landing on the coastal highway of El Mamey beach in Varadero, Matanzas Province, 93 miles from Havana at the agreed time. His wife Victoria (34), and their two sons, Reyneil (11), and Alejandro (6), were already waiting on his order delivered through two Mexican ladies as messengers a few days before. Orestes Lorenzo Pérez picked up his family and managed a successful safe return to Marathon, Florida.
- In 1953, Mira Slovak, a pilot for Czechoslovak Airlines, was flying a regularly scheduled flight from Prague to Brno. While en route, he overpowered the co-pilot, locked the cockpit door and dove the plane to below 1,000 feet. He flew the plane to Frankfurt, where he requested and received asylum. He later went to the United States, where he flew various aircraft, raced boats, and was a pilot for Continental Airlines.
- In 1971, stunt pilot Ladislav Bezák – a winner of the FAI World Aerobatic Championships in 1960 – defected by flying to West Germany. He brought his wife and four sons along in a Zlin 226 that took off in Prague and landed in Nuremberg, where all six were awarded political asylum by West Germany.[6]
Dominican Republic[edit]
- In April 1959, Captain Juan de Dios Ventura Simó defected from Rafael Trujillo's air force in a de Havilland Vampire jet. He first flew to Puerto Rico in order to ask for political asylum in the United States, but soon left the country to join a group of Dominican exiles in Venezuela. In June 1959, they organized a Cuban-backed guerrilla campaign against Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, but were quickly overwhelmed by Trujillo's superior military force. Ventura Simó, one of the few survivors, was captured and tortured by Trujillo's men, who organized a disinformation campaign against the opposition by claiming that Ventura Simó was not a real defector but a government spy who had led the rebels to their ruin. Once Ventura Simó was no longer useful, he was killed in prison and put on a plane which crashed at sea in order to frame the death as an aviation accident.[7]
- On January 19, 1964, Egyptian pilot Mahmud Abbas Hilmi defected from el-Arish Air Base to Hatzor Air Base in Israel in his Yakovlev Yak-11 trainer.
- In 1976, two Ethiopian pilots defected to Sudan by flying their Northrop F-5A fighters to Kassala, the jets were returned to Ethiopia.
- In 1977, Ethiopian Air Force pilot Major Afeworki Mekonnen defected to Somalia with his English Electric Canberra bomber. The incident took place during the Ogaden War. Throughout the 1980s to 1991, several Ethiopian pilots defected with their planes to Sudan and Yemen.
- On 26 May 1991, The pilots of seven Mi-8s, an L-39, two An-12s, three MiG-23s, three Mi-24s and three Mi-35s defected from Ethiopia to Djibouti after the fall of the Mengistu government. The aircraft were all returned to Ethiopia on August 8.
- On March 7, 1969, East German Air Force JG-1 pilot Hauptmann Gerhard Scharnetzki flew from Cottbus to Rønne Airport on Bornholm Island in a Yak-18A trainer plane numbered 11.[8]
- On April 1, 1971, West German Army Aviation cadet-pilot Corporal Hans-Dieter Reinkensmeier defected in a small Cessna 172 to East Germany and asked for political asylum.[9]
- On 11 September 1970 A Greek Air Force C-47 crossed into Soviet airspace in the area of Sevastopol in order to defect. The pilot of a Su-15 flew up alongside and rocked his wings, signaling "follow me". The C-47 complied and landed at Bel'bek airbase. The Greek pilot, Captain Mikhalis Maniatakis had stolen the aircraft from Chania airbase on Crete to flee from junta-controlled Greece. Maniatakis requested political asylum in the USSR.
- On 25 November 1973 A Greek Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel Dimitrios Zelios landed at an airport in the southeast Italian city of Brindisi and asked for political asylum.
- On 16 October 1982, Iranian defector Keyhan Jafankhr, a commercial airline pilot, asked for political asylum after landing his Iran Air Boeing 727 for a stopover in Austria.[10]
- On 10 July 1983, Iranian defector Captain Iraj Fazeli landed a US-made F-5E Tiger II jet at an airport in Van, one of Turkey's easternmost provinces bordering Iran. The aircraft belonged to TFB.2 at Tabriz.
- In early 1984, Iranian defectors flew an F-5E to Saudi Arabia (the pilot returned to Iran several years later). In both of these cases, the jets were back in Iran a few weeks later.
- On 30 August 1984, Iranian pilot Captain Rahman Nageeb defected in his F-4E Phantom II serial 3-6552 to Iraq, and his RIO became a POW who was later released with other prisoners.
- On 21 July 1985, Iranian pilot Mehdi Babaie and two airmen flew their US-made Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopter serial 5-4089 to Iraq.
- On 31 August 1986 an Iranian top-line F-14A Tomcat fighter armed with at least one AIM-54A landed in Iraq. An Iraqi military spokesman identified the pilot and Weapon Systems Officer (WSO) as Major Ahmed Murad Talibi and Captain Hassan Nagafi Habibullah. Upon landing, the aircraft was surrounded by up to 20 US technicians, who took care of it and the defecting pilot, while the WSO who had opposed the defection became an Iraqi POW, later released with other prisoners (the pilot was later killed in Europe). The F-14A along with the aforementioned F-4E were flown to Saudi Arabia by US pilots, who insisted that they first be inspected and repaired by US technicians. After being thoroughly examined, both aircraft were destroyed and buried in the desert.[citation needed]
- On April 2, 1960 Iraqi pilot Lt. Abbud Salim Hasan flew his British-made Hawker Hunter to Syria, where he asked for political asylum, claiming to have escaped from Communist domination in the air force.
- On November 30, 1963 Iraqi airman Lieutenant Abdel Rahim al-Salim Zuher escaped to the USSR by flying through Iran and landing at an airfield in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. He gave as reason for his defection, an unwillingness to participate in the suppression of Kurdish rebels. The aircraft type in which he defected is not known but it may have been a de Havilland Vampire. The pilot was granted political asylum.[11]
- On 16 August 1966, Iraqi Captain Munir Redfa flew his MiG-21F-13 to Israel as a result of Mossad Operation Diamond. Two years later, Israel gave his MiG-21F-13 and two MiG-17F to the United States for evaluation under the code-name "Have Doughnut" (for the MiG-21), and "Have Drill" (for the MiG-17).
- Following Captain Munir Redfa's defection, there were at least two Iraqi pilots who defected to Jordan with their MiG-21F-13 jets. Jordan granted them political asylum but returned the aircraft to Iraq.
- On the early morning of 2 December 1981, an Iraqi pilot of the 84th Sqn defected with his MiG-23 to Vahdati AB in Iran. He managed to land safely, and subsequently proved to be a superb source of intelligence for the IRIAF. However, the plane was left in the open for several hours too long, and in the afternoon the Iraqi Air Force dispatched a strike against the Iranian base destroying the aircraft with unguided 68mm rockets from Su-20 bombers.[12]
- During Operation Desert Storm in 1991, pilots of 115 to 140 Iraqi aircraft defected to Iran.[13]
- On 13 July 1990, at 4:30 a.m., 33-year-old Captain (res.) Haggai Mori, set out from Sde Dov airfield without permission with a Dornier Do 28 plane and attempted to defect. According to the Arab sources enemy plane was met by Syrian fighter planes and driven off from Syrian airspace. After this, the pilot committed suicide. The wreckage of the missing Israeli air force plane was found on the western slopes of the Golan Heights, near the Syrian border.[14]
- On 12 November 1962, A pilot introduced as the commander in chief of the Jordanian Air Force Lt.Col. Sahl Mohamed Hamza defected to the United Arab Republic in a De Havilland DH.114 Heron military transport plane.
- On 13 November 1962 Two Jordanian Air Force pilots defected to United Arab Republic with their Hawker Hunters (#804 & #810).
- On 16 March 1963, Lieutenant Chert Saibory defected flying his American-made T-28 Trojan to North Vietnam.[15]
- On 10 March 1976, Sunthorn Mongkamsee of Laos landed his American-made Cessna L-19 light observation aircraft in Thailand.[16]
- On 24 August 1979, Laotian pilot Flight Lieutenant Chaisin Chinthenam flew his C-47 Dakota into north eastern Thailand and asked for asylum.
- On 30 December 1987, Lebanese Air force Lt. Majed Karamah, who is a Druze, flew the French-made Gazelle helicopter from a military base north of Beirut to the Shouf and handed it to the pro-Syrian Druze militia.
- Shortly before the Libyan–Egyptian War (1977), a Libyan cadet pilot defected in small single-engine Socata Rallye by flying to Egypt.[17]
- On 11 February 1981 A Libyan Air Force Captain pilot flying a MiG-23 defected from Libya by flying to Crete, Greece. The pilot claimed that the reason for his defection was the suspicion of his attempt to commandeer a Libyan C-130 carrying 19 Libyan army officers sentenced to death and fly them to Greece. The attempt failed, and sometime later, he became a suspect when Libyan military intelligence found out about his (failed) attempt. The pilot has graduated from Yugoslav Air Force Academy.[18] The aircraft was later returned to Libya on February 14.
- There were a number of defections to Egypt in 1987. First on March 2, a crew of five defected in a C-130 with two of the officers asking for political asylum. Then on March 29, three officers defected on a CH-47 Chinook, while finally on July 16 three more officers defected, this time in a Mil Mi-8.[19]
- On 8 July 1981 Lieutenant Adriano Francisco Bomba flew a MiG-17 from Maputo to over the Kruger Park, to South Africa, after which he was intercepted and escorted to land at Air Force Base Hoedspruit. On landing he asked for political asylum. The aircraft was later returned to Maputo by road, after extensive examination, flight testing and an appearance at an air show.
- On March 7, 1964, a young aircraft engineer, Theo van Eijck, of the Dutch Naval Air Arm MLD stole a two-engined Grumman S-2 Tracker maritime patrol aircraft at RAF Hal Far in Malta and flew to Libya. He was trying to defect to Egypt, but did not have enough fuel to reach his destination in Alexandria. He made a perfect landing on a short airstrip near Benghazi, after flying over Benina Airport. The pilot was then granted political asylum by the Libyan authorities, but a year later he agreed to return to the Netherlands and spent a year in jail. The aircraft was returned to the Dutch after that.[20]
- On 12 June 1979, Nicaraguan National Guard pilot Captain Armangal Lara Cruz defected with his armed Cessna O-2 FAN-320 to the Costa Rica.[21]
- On 23 December 1985, Sandinista Air Force pilot Sub.Lt. Salvador Blanco Lacayo defected to neighboring Honduras with An-2 light transport plane.[21]
- On 8 December 1988, A Sandinista Air Force pilot Captain Edwin Estrada Leiva defected to Honduras in a Soviet-built Mi-25 attack helicopter.[21]
North Korea[edit]
Main article: North Korean defectors
- On April 28, 1950, 24-year-old Lieutenant Lee Kun Soon defected by flying his Soviet-made Ilyushin Il-10 to Pusan, South Korea.
- On September 21, 1953, 21-year-old No Kum-Sok, a senior lieutenant in the North Korean air force, flew his MiG-15 to the South and is associated with Operation Moolah. Considered an intelligence bonanza, since this fighter plane was then the best the Communist bloc had, No was awarded the then immense sum of $100,000 and the right to reside in the United States. An offer to return the MiG was ignored, and the aircraft is now on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Dayton, Ohio.
- On June 21, 1955, North Korean air force pilots Capt. Lee Un Yong and Lt. Lee Eun Song defected to Seoul, South Korea, with Yak-18 training plane.
- On December 1970, Major Pak Sun-kok, a pilot in the North Korean air force, is believed to have defected in Gangwon Province, South Korea with an MIG15. He is thought to have become a pilot with the South Korean air force.[22]
- On February 25, 1983, Captain Lee Ung-Pyong (28) of the North Korean air force used a training exercise to defect and landed his MiG-19 at an airfield in Seoul. According to then-common practice, he received a commission in the South Korean Air Force, eventually becoming a colonel and taught at the South Korean air force academy until his death in 2002. He received a reward of ₩1.2 billion.[23]
- On August 20, 1971 during the Bangladesh Liberation War, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, an instructor pilot, attempted to defect from the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and join the Liberation movement of Bangladesh, by flying a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star trainer aircraft with a copy of the PAF Operational plan for the Southern theatre (which he possibly stole from Air Base Headquarters) from Karachi, Pakistan to India. His attempt was foiled by trainee Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas. Rashid was taxiing his T-33 and was awaiting permission to take off for a training flight when Matiur Rahman (his instructor) stopped him and climbed to the cockpit. Matiur then hit Rashid in the neck rendering him unconscious; and assumed control. Once the aircraft had taken off, Matiur flew towards the Indian border. Rashid regained consciousness and struggled to regain control, but failed because of his weaker physique than Matiur. In order to keep the aircraft from reaching Indian hands Rashid dove the aircraft until it crashed near Thatta, 40 kilometres from the Indian border, killing both pilots instantly. Both pilots were posthumously awarded the highest military honours from their respective nations.[citation needed] All other Pakistan Air Force pilots of Bengali origin, including ace Muhammad Mahmood Alam, were grounded for the remainder of the conflict to prevent any further defections or attempted defections.
Between 1949 and 1956 four Polish MiGs and one Il-2M3 defected from communist Poland to Denmark and Sweden.
- In 1949, Lt. Arkadiusz Korobczynski from Navy Flight in Wicko Morskie defected with Il-2M3 attack aircraft (No 3) to Gotland Island in Sweden.
- On March 5, 1953, Polish Lt. Franciszek Jarecki flew from Słupsk (Polish Air Force Base) to Rønne Airport on Bornholm Island in a MiG-15bis (No 346) - a modern Soviet fighter. Western air specialists checked the aircraft and several days later, the MiG returned to People's Republic of Poland by ship. Jarecki, however, went to the United States, where he provided much important information about modern Soviet aircraft and air tactics.
- On May 20, 1953, Lt. Zdzislaw Jazwinski from 28th Fighter Squadron in Słupsk defected with MiG-15bis to Rønne Airport on Bornholm Island.
- On September 25, 1956 Lt. Zygmunt Gosciniak from Zegrze Pomorskie defected with MiG-15bis (No 1327) and landed without using landing gear at Rønne Airport on Bornholm Island.
- On November 7, 1957 Lt. Kozuchowski from 31st Fighter Squadron in Łask defected with Lim-2 (MiG-15bis, No 1919) and crash-landed near Halland in Sweden.
- On 12 March 1963 1st Lieutenant Jacinto Soares Veloso defected from the Portuguese Air Force by flying his T-6 trainer across the Mozambique-Tanganyika border to Dar es Salaam, where he joined the Mozambique Liberation Front.[24]
- In 1977, Jurick Goldwasser, a former mayor of Bulawayo and distant cousin of American presidential candidate and senator Barry Goldwater, flew to Botswana in a small private plane and asked for political asylum.[25]
Saudi Arabia[edit]
- On 2 October 1962 A twin-engined Saudi Air Force Fairchild C-123 Provider, laden with US-made arms and ammunition said to have been sent by Prince Hassan to the Royal supporters in Yemen, defected to Egypt. Its three crew members sought and were given political asylum. The crew were identified as pilots Rashad Sisha Mecca, Ahmed Hussein Ikka and flight engineer Omar.[26]
- On 3 October 1962 two Saudi Arabian fliers landed an air force training plane in upper Egypt and asked for and received political asylum. It was the second such defection in two days. Pilots identified as Aly El-Azhari and Abdul Wahab.[citation needed]
- On 8 October 1962 two more Saudi Arabian military aircraft defected to Egypt.[citation needed]
- 11 November 1990, a Saudi air force pilot defected with top-line F-15C Eagle fighter to Sudan during Operation Desert Shield. Saudi Arabia paid US$40 million for return of the aircraft, three months later.[27]
- On July 12, 1988, a Somalia Air Force pilot Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Hassan defected to Djibouti with his MiG-17F fighter jet, saying that he was refusing to obey orders to bomb civilian targets in the North.[28]
- On May 29, 1990, a Somalia Air Force pilot lieutenant colonel Mohamed Sheikh Ibrahim Yusuf defected to Djibouti with his An-26 transport plane, and requested political asylum.
South Korea[edit]
- In September 1949, a South Korean pilot, 1st Lieutenant Pak Yong-Ju, defected with his Stinson L-5 to North Korea.
- On December 3, 1952, a South Korean Army Aviator student 2-nd Lt. Kug Yong Am defected with his L-19 51-4794 to Pyongyang, North Korea.
- In October 1953, a South Korean pilot-instructor Capt. Kim Sung Bai defected with an F-51 Mustang fighter plane to North Korea.
- On January 20, 1954, a South Korean pilot 2-nd Lieutenant Choi Mai Chong defected with an L-19 light observation plane to North Korea.
Soviet Union[edit]
Soviet pilots also defected and the most famous involved defecting with the most advanced jet fighters at the time, including:
- On October 9, 1948, Piotr Pirogov and Anatoly Barsov defected by flying their Tu-2 bomber from the USSR to Linz, Austria, where they were granted asylum by the American occupational authorities. Barsov returned to the USSR a year later, and was executed.[29]
- In 1961, a disappointed Soviet pilot flew his Sukhoi Su-9 interceptor to Abadan, Iran. Only very sketchy details about this incident are known even today, but the plane and the pilot were quickly picked up by officers of the Foreign Technology Division (FTD) of the United States DoD. After being disassembled within 24 hours the Su-9 was transported to the USA, while the pilot followed shortly after.
- On May 22, 1967, Lieutenant Vasily Ilych Epatko, flew his MiG-17 from East Germany where he was stationed, to West Germany and ejected in Dillingen about 20 miles northwest of Augsburg. He was granted asylum by the United States.[30]
- On May 7, 1973, Lieutenant Yevgeny Vronsky, flew his Sukhoi Su-7 from East Germany where he was stationed, to West Germany and ejected near Wolfenbüttel. The wreckage of the aircraft was returned to the Soviet Union, but German authorities let Vronsky stay in the country.
- On September 6, 1976, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko defected with his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 to Hakodate, Japan. After being inspected by the Foreign Technology Division of the United States DoD, the MiG-25 was released to Japan who then returned it in pieces to the Soviet Union after having been disassembled and analyzed by the United States.
- On May 20, 1989, Captain Aleksandr Zuyev defected with his Mikoyan MiG-29 to Trabzon, Turkey. In his autobiography Fulcrum: A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire (ISBN 0-446-51648-1) Zuyev reported that the USSR quickly did a deal with the Turkish government upon his defection, and the MiG-29 was returned to the Russians. According to Zuyev himself, the first words he said as he stepped out of the cockpit after his successful defection were, "I will be an American!". He was shot in the escape and was airlifted out of Turkey by a U.S. C-130 that same night, to Ramstein AB. He shared many stories with the crew that are later expounded upon in his book.
- On 15–17 August 1968, The pilots of nine Syrian MiG-17s and three MiG-21s defected to Iraq after failing in a coup attempt
- On June 14, 1976, A Palestinian pilot in the Syrian Air Force, Flight Lieutenant Mahmoud Musleh Yasin, defected to Iraq with his MiG-23 Flogger.
- On July 27, 1976, Syrian pilot Captain Abdul Qadar Al-Termanini, the "October war" hero, defected to Iraq with his MiG-21 fighter jet.
- On October 11, 1989, Syrian pilot Abdel Bassem landed his MiG-23ML in Israel.
- On 12 January 1955, Major Xao Long defected to the People's Republic of China with his crew, on board a C-46 Commando transport plane.
- On 23 February 1955, Two Republic of China Air Force cadets defected with PT-17 training plane.
- On 18 May 1955, A pilot Lieutenant Hui Wei attempted to defect in his F-47 but crash landed just inside Guangdong.[31]
- On 15 August 1956, Major Gang Huang, an Republic of China Air Force Academy instructor pilot, defected to the People's Republic of China with his AT-6 Texan trainer aircraft numbered 106.
- On 1 June 1963, Tingze Xu, a pilot in the Republic of China Air Force 43 Squadron, defected to the People's Republic of China in a F-86F Sabre. In doing so, he took off from Hsinchu Air Base, Taiwan and landed at Longtian, Fujian province, PRoC. The aircraft is now on display in the Military Museum of Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing.[32]
- On 26 May 1969, Two Republic of China Air Force pilots defected to the People's Republic of China with T-33 Shooting Star trainer aircraft serialled 3024. Later crew was identified as instructor pilot Wang Tianming and cadet Zhu Jingrong. The aircraft is now on display in the Military Museum of Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing.
- On August 8, 1981, Major Huang Zhi Cheng (黄值诚), an instructor pilot, defected to the People's Republic of China with his Northrop F-5F serial 5361. He obtained a reward of USD 370,000 (sum immediately returned) and was nominated Deputy Commander of a pilot training school.[33] According to the Chinese government he was the 90th member of the Nationalist forces to defect by plane since 1949.[34]
- On 22 April 1983, Li Dawei (李大维) flying a U-6A Beaver defected from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China. The aircraft is now on display in the Military Museum of Chinese People's Revolution in Beijing.
- On 4 May 1986, Wang Xijue (王锡爵), a commercial airline pilot who claimed to have flown U-2 recon overflights of the PRC with the Black Cat Squadron, defected to China with his Boeing 747 jet.[35]
- On 2 November 1989, another attempted defection went awry when the pilot, Lin Xianshun (林贤顺) of Northrop F-5E serial 5120 ejected 80 km inside the Guangdong province, the pilotless aircraft being destroyed and the remains put on show at the Chinese People's Revolution Museum at Xiaotangshan (Datangshan).[33]
United States[edit]
- In March 1962, United States Army soldier Sgt.B.J Keesee defected to Cuba in a Piper Comanche.[36]
- In July 1963, United States Airman Roberto "Robert" Ramos Michelena defected to Cuba in a T-34 training plane.[37]
- On 21 May 1967, Major Richard Harwood Pearce, a Bronze Star Medal winner in Vietnam who was cleared to handle secret US Army materials, defected to Cuba in a Cessna 150 light plane. Pearce was granted asylum in Cuba.[38]
- On 26 June 1973, A Venezuelan Air Force pilot Capt. Aristides Gonzalez Salazar and a crewmember Sgt. Carlos Ramirez Madero defected with Canberra B. (I). Mk.52 jet bomber to Cuba.
- On 27 February 1962, South Vietnamese pilot Lieutenant Nguyen Van Cu defected to Cambodia with his Douglas A-1H Skyraider (Bu 134485) after failing in a coup attempt.
- On 7 November 1973, South Vietnamese pilot Lieutenant Ho Duy Hung defected to the Communists with a US-made UH-1A helicopter serial number 60139.[39]
- In April 1975, two South Vietnamese pilots defected to the Communists with a UH-1 helicopter.
- On 8 April 1975, a South Vietnamese Air Force officer, Captain Nguyen Thanh Trung, bombed the presidential palace in Saigon and defected to the Communists in his F-5E.[40]
- On 13 September 1953, an air force pilot Lieutenant Nikola Jakšić flew his P-47D Thunderbolt to Italy and asked for political asylum after landing at Aviano air base.
- On 25 October 1991, air force pilot Rudolf Perešin flew his MiG-21 to Austria and defected. He later fought on behalf of Croatian forces in the Yugoslav Wars, ultimately dying after being shot down in 1995.
- On 30 June 1988, a Zimbabwe air force pilot Group Captain Gary Kane stole his Bell 214 helicopter in an abortive attempt to rescue alleged South African agents from jail.
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- ^ a b http://www.skywar.ru/Cubaincident.html
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- ^ http://home.snafu.de/veith/Texte/Chronik-der-Luftstreitkraefte.pdf
- ^ http://ddr-luftwaffe.blogspot.com/2008/12/was-ist-aus-hans-dieter-reinkensmeier.html
- ^ Iranian Air Pilot Defects. Associated Press. The Victoria Advocate 18 October 1982: 7A.
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- ^ Wings Over The Gulf, F-15 Eagle, The Discovery Channel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fh8I470El0&NR=1 (4:01)
- ^ http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/99231763.html?dids=99231763:99231763&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+18%2C+1990&author=By+BEN+LYNFIELD%3B+Jerusalem+Post+Reporter&pub=Jerusalem+Post&desc=NO+COMMENT'+ON+REPORTED+DEFECTION+OF+AIR+FORCE+PILOT&pqatl=google
- ^ Toperczer, Istvan. MiG-17 and MiG-19 Units of the Vietnam War. London: Osprey Publishing Limited, 2001.
- ^ http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70815F73A58167493C3A81788D85F428785F9
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lD4aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SikEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4120,768629&dq=libyan+pilot+defection&hl=en
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- ^ Soviet Defectors: The KGB Wanted List, Hoover Press, 1985, by Vladislav Krasnov
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kLUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=kTIHAAAAIBAJ&pg=7104,4904803&dq=american+defector&hl=en
- ^ http://www.taiwanairpower.org/history/defection.html
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- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=hNQzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=aekFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1678,3053947&dq=navy+defector&hl=en
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- ^ http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40814FE3B5C117B93C7AB178ED85F438685F9
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- ^ Air War Over North Vietnam: The Vietnamese People's Air Force, 1949-1977, by Istvan Toperczer


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Joe Miller's allegations came in a deposition for a discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by former mayoral aide Ruth Bates against the city, Funkhouser and Squitiro. The deposition was given Monday. The transcript was finalized Friday.
Miller said Squitiro first lit the sage — or smudge sticks — after Funkhouser was elected in order to "get rid of the evil spirits of the Barnes administration." He said Squitiro lit another batch of sage at the office as the communications team worked on a speech in which Funkhouser asked the city council not to ban his wife from City Hall.
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another factor to this deal is that it seems to me that this merger in the future might face a spike of discussion regarding anticompetitive practices. There should have been a merger control or something like a regulatory body who will audit and review the deal and will take care of the antitrust/competition law to protect the customers.
The major carriers already conspire to raise and keep prices high.
Look at SMS pricing - all at once, all of the carriers raised rates from 5c to 10c per message, citing "increased costs" even though the bandwidth for them is literally free, and the infrastructure to deal with small text messages is negligible.
Americans routinely pay $100/month or more for unlimited cell phone service, which is triple the rates in some other countries.
That is NOT a monopoly, Dear lord, NOT even close...
It's really ironic, government's DOJ spent a lot of money against AT%T to break their monopoly. After AT%T was broken up into smaller companies it's parent company started to rebuild and now they are about to cannibalize T-Mobile. One can sit assured that the cushy rates from T-Mobile will seize to exist after the take over. BTW if AT%T stayed intact we still would be using rotary phones
What nobody seems to be mentioning is AT&T's claims of the merger allowing it to expand it's network more easily is pretty much a blatant lie. T-Mobile uses the same technology, but operates on different frequencies. Having an unlocked phone in the U.S. is pretty much just a novelty since you only have AT&T or T-Mobile to go through in most palaces and their 3G networks are incompatible, so while you can use the phone on either, you're stuck at 2G data speeds and unable to use data while talking. This won't magically change if the purchase goes through.
Surely the arguments dominant companies' use to dominate markets have all been heard and debunked: e.g. will provide better access through wider infrastructure; will make products cheaper for customers by squeezing supplier costs, will provide more funds for R&D. The one certainty in these cases is that the dominating company is the winner and the interests of the rest of the industry and consumers are secondary. Surely governments know how to structure competitive markets by now.
The current unthinking ideology that perfectly free markets are best for all and in all cases a la reagonomics should be better challenged. As well as the excess of industries that are disastrous for consumers around the world and the tendency of some markets to lurch from crisis to crisis, examples of where public / state definition of markets has led to sustainable high wealth generation and benefits for consumers and providers alike need to be translated into dominant political and common knowledge.
The merger should be indeed be blocked but we must use the occasion to understand the underlying reasons for the consolidation. Very simply the idea that we can fund infrastructure as a profit center by selling services doesn't work now that all the value is external. Even mobile payments are bypassing the carriers.
We have to fund infrastructure as a commons in each community and not bring back Ma Bell. More at http://rmf.vc/Demystify.econ, http://rmf.vc/AssuringScarcity.econ and other writings at http://Frankston.com/public.
@The_Prof: "The deal will be evaluated on its merits by people appointed by a combination of the US Congressional and Executive branches."
I don't like the judgment of these experts. When the wireless spectra were being initially allocated, they decided to have a carrier use any technology, preferring that the government not be involved in setting up a standard as the 'market will choose'.
Well, we have four major carriers with inability to share towers. This has forced the telcos to build parallel networks across the land resulting in more expenditure to individual companies as well as inadequate coverage to the consumer. This may have worked in a small country like Latvia, but the US has a large area.
All throughout Europe, with compatible technology, users can roam from one carrier to another, without the calls being dropped, which is a common US user experience. Even a Dane has a choice of six carriers. The US approach has certainly been a folly, duplicated nowhere else in the world.
I hope this merger is refused. The government should step in and ensure the the forthcoming 4G technology (LTE, and not the 3G+ tech telcos are hawking as 4G) shapes up to a single standard, giving more choice to consumers in services and hardware.
Are the normal leader writers on vacation? Do you really think the president just picks up the phone calls the FTC and FCC and says, we outta block this one? The deal will be evaluated on its merits by people appointed by a combination of the US Congressional and Executive branches.
I don't really like the deal, but at the same time its not 1982. I am not worried too much about Ma Bell; she has lost a step or two since her prime.
This merger, if approved, effectively takes out the low cost provider in the market. We can all start getting used to paying premium prices for mediocre services. And dont buy the "improving service" pledge from AT&T as we all know how poor their service and network is. Besides huge market share and subs, I cannot really see any benefit of this merger on the consumer. Looks like Grandma is stirring again...
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